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| Subject: Great contribution: Labour peer Lord Ashley, 89, dies Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:02 am | |
| Disabled rights campaigner Lord Ashley of Stoke has died aged 89.
The former Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent died on Friday night after a short battle with pneumonia, his family said.
Jack Ashley represented the city for 26 years until he was made a Labour peer in 1992. He was deaf for most of his political career.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-17797677 |
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